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Poor Leslie. Leslie Lynnton met Jordan Benedict when he dropped in at her gracious old Virginia home to buy a fine horse that Dr. Lynnton owned. Leslie was slim, well read, provocatively frank and altogether charming, an exceptional gal for even the Old Dominion. "Bick" Benedict owned one of the biggest ranches in Texas, couple three million acres or so. He was big, handsome, impetuous and all male. In no time at all he wooed and won Leslie, brought her back to the huge Reata ranch as his wife...
...Gander airport was enlarged, and U.S. money began pouring into other defense installations; that gave work to thousands of Newfoundlanders. After the war, Newfoundland had a $29 million cash surplus, and Britain gave the Newfoundlanders three choices: to continue with commission government (which few Newfies wanted), to return to dominion status, or to join Canada...
Stoutly he stood on his early cries of alarm. "Tragic indeed," concluded Winston Churchill, "is the spectacle of the might, majesty, dominion and power of the once magnificent and still considerable British Empire having to worry and wonder how we can pay our monthly bills . . . I am tortured by this thought...
With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...
Quoting and agreeing with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...